The Importance of Mitochondrial DNA in Criminal Cases

Mitochondrial DNA is something that genealogists have used in researchers into ancestral origins of the human population. The advantage of mitochondrial DNA within a criminal situation is that there's thousands of times more mitochondrial DNA per cell than nuclear DNA. So if I have a sample, let's say like this torso or hairs that are present from this 1910 case, there's a chance that the nuclear DNA has just absolutely degraded. But because there's so much more mitochondrial DNA present at the beginning,. there's a greater chance that there's still mitochondrial DNA that exists today.